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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

If you're not listening to Open Mike Eagle, now is a good time to start

RE: https://www.threads.com/@open%5Fmike%5Feagle/post/DMIYsb3RlCt

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Please stop sending me Pascal's wager. It only makes you look like an idiot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/15/an-aurelian-wager/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.1.2") wrote:

https://htmlforpeople.com/ is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'm only human. Sometimes I like seeing right-wingers in misery.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/15/gossip-time/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The worst thing you can do to a Cybertruck owner is simply to not acknowledge the car. They hate it lmao

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

The @freexian team discussing with other #Debian fellows at the #Debusine BoF. #DebConf25

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stefanhoeltgen ("µP") wrote:

ATASCOIID: A 998 Byte "big" #BreakOut for the #Atari800, just published by Frederik Holst for the @abbuc Software Competition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ffy4TXI-c

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming

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CORVUSPHERE@todon.eu (":crow:CORVUSPHERE :crow:") wrote:

In today's picture: Corvus crassirostris (known as thick-billed raven). #CORVUSPHERE #CorvusCrassirostris #ThickBilledRaven :crow:

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nateseubert ("Nate Seubert") wrote:

Yeah, I’m still working on this one. I’ve been fixing the leaves. They’re better, now.
#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #losangeles #surrealism #wip #workinprogress

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flameReactor ("Flame Reactor") wrote:

Cavilian wiggles.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#fractalArt

Attachments:

• gifv: Fractal imagery.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I really love the multi-page view transitions on @geoff's blog:

https://geoffgraham.me/blog/

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Americans chose a government that is defunding cancer research and attacking life saving vaccines. We had the Star Trek future within our grasp and chose the Empire from Star Wars instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/mrna-vaccine-cancer-research-trump-administration

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

Working on some much needed improvements to the profile page in status.log.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

People keep telling me that paying 10x+ for React or Angular vs a contemporary tool like Fast, Lit, Svelte, Preact, Qwik, or Solid (etc. etc.) is fine because "it's only 50K."

And I hear that, but by the third or fourth React version on the page, I really start to wonder.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

Here’s something I’ve often wondered about:

“Quicklinks”

Or “quick links”

Usually a label to a list of links in a website navigation.

It’s one of those folk terms of two words jammed together that probably didn’t exist before the World Wide Web.

Who started this? What makes them “quick”? Or, “quicker” than other links? It seems like the label has fallen out of favor with the maturity of content strategy and user experience design professions. But it’s still out there: in Microsoft products on the U.S. Navy website…

I started my web career at the beginning of the Responsive Web Design era. Every now and then I would get a request to add quick links as a feature.

Were Quicklinks ubiquitous in the early 2000s? Earlier? What were some of the websites that pioneered this term? Does the phrase predate the web somehow? And why does my iPhone autocorrect to capitalize Quicklinks?

So far I found a NNGroup article from 2014 arguing in favor of more descriptive labels and better patterns for this kind of navigation. But the mystery remains… who started Quicklinks?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://www.newamerica.org/planetary-politics/blog/compute-or-be-computed/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://www.noemamag.com/what-ai-teaches-us-about-good-writing/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://genius.com/James-baldwin-stranger-in-the-village-annotated

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Some of my favorite #essays with no context (please feel free to share some of yours too) 🧵

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

(Ok, yes, tomatoes are technically fruit, botanically speaking. But legally they’re vegetables. See Nix v Hedden).

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Even The Onion would struggle to come up with a headline and story as ridiculous as this.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

He’s going after schools, vaccinations, and vegetables. Trump must really care about winning over that all-important kindergarten demographic.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

It’s International Non-Binary People’s Day again!

A few years ago, I wrote about my experience realizing I’m non-binary.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/they-and-me/

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Woody Guthrie's original (home taped) 1951 recording of "Deportee" was recently found. Couldn't be more timely if it were written today. (And he was living in an apartment rented from Fred Trump at the time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlr-Rj9VwA&t=8s

#ThisMachineKillsFacists

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

This toot brought to you by a code review where there are no clear boundaries between interrupt context and non-interrupt context, with all the hilarity that you'd expect.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Look, I try to be inclusive and non-judgmental, but... It's just... How do I put this?... Some people aren't responsible enough to write interrupt service routines without supervision, okay?